60 child asylum seekers test positive for COVID-19 in San Diego Convention Center

San Diego, March 30 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, over 60 unaccompanied migrant children being held at the San Diego Convention Center have tested positive for COVID-19.  The convention center is currently holding over 700 children, according to local media.

Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal is reporting Border Patrol facilities across the Texas-Mexico border are so overcrowded that border agents recently started holding hundreds of asylum seekers under a bridge near McAllen, where they were forced to sleep on the dirt.  Border agents have also been dropping off hundreds of asylum seekers at bus stations and even hotels. 

The news comes as a record number of asylum seekers are arriving to the southern border, fleeing extreme poverty, violence and climate change in their home countries.